The Illusion of Independent Agency: Do Adult Fiction Writers Experience Their Characters as Having Minds of Their Own?

By Marjorie Taylor, Sara D. Hodges, A. Kohányi. 2003

101 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Psychiatry and Mental health

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Maja Djikic

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Maja Djikic
2. Mihnea C. Moldoveanu
3. Keith Oatley
4. E. Koopman
5. Jessica E. Black
6. J. Barnes
7. Raymond A. Mar
8. D. McAdams

In Psychiatry and Mental health

1. Keith Oatley
2. Jessica E. Black
3. J. Barnes

Citations in the corpus

• Reading other minds: Effects of literature on empathy (2013, result): “The set of results on increased empathy associated with higher lifetime levels of reading fiction also fits well with the findings of Taylor, Hodges, and Kohanyi (2003), who found that people who had been writing fiction for at least five years scored higher on Interpersonal Reactivity Index than a…”